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Originally Posted by actionjackson
I play with recalc on, but ratings off, write over the names in the Master.csv file with a random name generator and blot out giveaways like nicknames, birth cities, birth country etc - everybody's an American in my games regardless of where they came from originally. Without doing the country thing it's too easy to figure out who that terrific Irish pitcher from the 19th century (Tony Mullane) is. I think this might actually give the AI the advantage, which is probably a good thing. 
What I like about recalc on is that the talent distribution comes as close as possible to RL talent distribution. It would probably piss me off if Paul Zuvella made the HoF, but Hank Aaron did not. At the end of my game, I can take a month or so to sort out who was who. All part of the fun of the game, but not everyone's cup of tea.
Also, I think historical recalc games come closest to getting the stats right on a league-wide basis, but that may have changed in this version. It's totally cliche, but "It's your game, play it your way" totally applies to OOTP.  |
I like the accuracy of it...maybe you add some house rules...like for the draft you let the AI draft the players for you..and for trades stick to deals that the AI offers you etc...the only thing is this though...say for Tony Conigliaro...the great part of this game is you can change history..OOTP will recalc Tony C to turn into crap soon after 1967 because of the injury..with recalc off though he might become a Hall of Famer...I am torn...lol...the game has too many options sometimes lol..